A British Airways Pilot Took This Amazing Photo Of A Spacecraft Returning To Earth

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the Olympic torch returned to Earth
on Monday, and a British Airways pilot was in the perfect place
to snap a shot of it shortly before it landed in Kazakhstan.

Captain Simon Wijker took the photo during a flight from London
to Singapore. He sent it to European Space Agency, thinking they
might be interested. He described it as "a white ball of fire
traveling at very high speed following roughly the curvature of
the Earth disappearing over the horizon to the North," according to an ESA blog post.

Astronauts Luca Parmitano, Karen Nyberg, and Fyodor Yurchikhin
were on board, along with the torch.